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Driving product momentum through organization change
What happened after writing a recent Product Management IRL article? These insights are for premium subscribers to Product Management IRL.
This week’s backstory is about keeping momentum in product management:
What Prompted this Article?
I’m usually not upset when I hit an obstacle in product management. I don’t mind hearing “We’ve never done it this way before”. This means I didn’t communicate well. I can do something about this.
I wrote this article after every functional team except marketing told me they couldn’t commit to the features in the next release. The reason they couldn’t commit was a pending re-organization and strategy update.
I wrote about taking these steps in the article:
Prepare for the possible outcomes of the pending organization changes
Focus on what I control
Keep a decision log to document what is on hold
I missed some key steps in this article!
